Unexplored Territory

Jan 25 2025 90 ep. 42 mins 108
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The Unexplored Territory Podcast is a bi-weekly show focussing on datacenter and cloud related topics, with a heavy emphasis on VMware/Broadcom products and the VMware ecosystem. The show is hosted by Duncan Epping (author of Yellow-Bricks.com, and the vSphere Clustering and vSAN Deep Dive book series), and each episode will feature an industry-leading expert to dive deep into their area of expertise.

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#089 - Discussing the VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF certification with Bart Peeters!

Jan 25 2025 22 mins  
Some of you have seen these new certifications popping up, VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF. I asked Bart Peeters, who recently took both the Admin exams, as well as the VCF architect exam, to talk us through his experience and some of his insights. Discussed on the podcast:VMUG Advantage with free exam voucher detailsVCP-VVF Admin experienceVCP-VCF Admin experienceVCP-VCF Architect experienceV

#088 - VMware Cloud Foundation in a stretched environment featuring Paudie O'Riordan!

Jan 11 2025 58 mins  
Over the last few years stretched environments have been extremely popular amongst vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation customers. The storage is the easy part, the network is usually where it gets more complex. To discuss the best practices, requirements, and caveats I invited Paudie O'Riordan to the show to share his knowledge and expertise! Explore session: VMware vSAN Stretched C

#087 - Microsoft on VMware VCF featuring Deji Akomolafe

Dec 15 2024 65 mins  
For episode 087 of the podcast, I invited Deji Akomolafe to the show to discuss Microsoft on VMware VCF and vSphere. Deji shares his experiences virtualizing and running Microsoft apps on top of VCF and vSphere and discusses some of the best practices and constraints. Whitepapers and tools discussed in the episode: Protecting mission critical workloads with Live Site Recovery Mi

#086 - Discussing the VCF and vSAN 9 storage and data protection vision with Pete Koehler!

Dec 01 2024 34 mins  
In episode 086 of the podcast, we discuss the most recent VCF 9 and vSAN 9 storage and data protection announcements with Pete Koehler. These announcements were made at VMware Explore 2024, and in my opinion, will bring both vSAN and VCF to the next level. During the discussion, we mentioned the following YouTube videos, which demonstrate the capabilities that are planned for vSAN

#085 - Past, present, and future.. with Duncan, Frank, and Johan!

Sep 29 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, Johan shares his exhilarating experience climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, discussing the physical and mental challenges faced during the ascent. Frank then transitions into explaining his new role focusing on Private AI, detailing the importance of providing efficient tools for data scientists. The conversation wraps up with reflections on the podcast journey, including

#084 - Use cases for vSphere Memory Tiering with Brandon Frost!

Sep 15 2024 35 mins  
Brandon Frost shares his experience with memory tiering and the use of Intel Optane in his large private cloud environment. He explains how memory tiering helped optimize memory usage and reduce costs by offloading cold memory to a non-active tier. He also discusses the challenges of upgrading memory and the benefits of using NVMe-based tiering. Brandon expresses his interest in Pr

#083 - VMware Explore 2024 US Special

Sep 01 2024 46 mins  
VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas is a wrap. The team was present and will give you the opportunity to get an idea what the show was like. You will hear large number of guests covering some of the announcements, some specific aspects of the conference (like the Hands-on Labs), but also some of the vendors on the expo. The episode contains the following topics:The future of VMUG with

#082 - Memory Tiering, CXL and Project Peaberry featuring Arvind Jagannath!

Aug 18 2024 38 mins  
Arvind Jagannath, a platform product manager at Broadcom, discusses memory tiering and its benefits for customers with Duncan. He explains that enterprise applications are becoming more memory-bound and require better performance. Memory tiering helps address the CPU to memory imbalance that many customers face, allowing for better CPU utilization and reducing costs. Arvind also me

#081 - Diving into the vSphere IaaS Control Plane with Katarina Brookfield

Aug 04 2024 45 mins  
In this conversation, Katarina Brookfield discusses her career trajectory and her current role at Broadcom. She shares defining moments in her career, including her experience working on the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology project. The conversation then shifts to the newly announced vSphere IaaS control plane and its benefits. Katarina explains that the control plane provides a comp

#080 - Announcing the vGPU Monitoring Fling with Ala Dewberry

Jul 21 2024 20 mins  
Summary:Ala Dewberry introduces Project Marigold, a plugin that aims to make GPUs a first-class citizen on vSphere by providing visibility and observability of GPU metrics at the cluster and data center level. The plugin helps infrastructure administrators manage GPUs more strategically and enables data scientists and application developers to have a frictionless experience. Ala al